Kodsnack 701 - The chicken would explode, with Holly Cummins

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Fredrik chats with Holly Cummins about using Minecraft for observability and the value of joy at work.

Fredrik chats to Holly Cummins about using Minecraft for observability, other amazing Quarkus tricks, and the value of joy at work. Recorded during Øredev 2025 . Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS ! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack , @tobiashieta , @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes ! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi . Links Holly Holly’s presentation - Five (and a half) things you can do with Quarkus Quarkus Graalvm Picocli AWT WASM Chicory - WASM runtime for the JVM Microcks - contract testing framework in Java APICurio Dev services SQLite in WASM Hibernate Reasteasy Vert.x - “reactive applications on the JVM” Holly’s Minecraft extension for Quarkus Support us on Ko-fi! Langchain4j Grafana William Gibson Backpressure Simon Wardley and his keynote on mapping Minecraft demo to explain Kubernetes concepts , by Sebastien Blanc Holly’s talk about developer joy The fun topic on hollycummins.com Titles All in one…

People in this episode

Host: Fredrik

Guest: Holly Cummins

Topics covered

• Minecraft
• observability
• Quarkus
• joy at work
• developer tools
• contract testing

Keywords

• Minecraft
• Quarkus
• observability
• joy at work
• contract testing
• developer tools

Sponsors

Cloudnet

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Quarkus, Graalvm, Picocli, AWT, WASM, Chicory, Microcks, APICurio, SQLite, Hibernate

Books & works: Five (and a half) things you can do with Quarkus

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